[Design] Chandler alpha 4 delete behavior

Travis Vachon travis at osafoundation.org
Wed Feb 7 12:21:02 PST 2007


Hi folks

I was confused by the Chandler ui during our QA session today, and  
Sheila and Aparna recommended I post here.

As part of the QA session I rearranged my calendars a little. My last  
step was to delete an old collection "Personal" that I didn't want  
any more.

I started out looking at another collection "Work".

The first thing I tried to do was to get a context menu by right  
clicking, where I expected I would find a delete option.

The next thing I tried to do was drag "Personal" to "Trash".

Next I tried  to select "Personal" in the sidebar and hit my "delete"  
key. When I selected "Personal", the central pane changed to a list  
of the events in "Personal", with one of the events selected. When I  
hit "delete", it deleted one of the events. Similar things happened  
with cmd-d and the "delete" item in the edit menu.

Finally (after getting on IRC ;-) ), I tried clicking on "Personal"  
in the sidebar a second time (while I was already looking at  
"Personal"). This turned the highlight on "Personal" from a light  
blue to an intense blue, and when I hit "Delete", it prompted me with  
the collection deletion dialog, from which I could delete my collection.


All this may be by design, and it may have changed for preview, but  
it sounds like it's helpful for you folks to get these kinds of "UI  
narratives".

Thanks!

-Travis





More information about the Design mailing list